When Poyo licked Sejun’s hand lightly, savoring Sejun’s misfortune,
Get away from my butler!
Blackie growled as ferociously as he could at Poyo.
Sejun was already unable to find opportunities to surpass his limits due to Theo and the people around him. If even his misfortune disappeared, Sejun’s growth would be further delayed.
At the end of all growth, there’s a wall. To cross that wall, trials must follow. And the stronger the trials, the greater the growth when the wall is surpassed.
“Kellion~nim, here’s the food.”
– Hahaha. Sejun, thank you. You’ve worked hard!
Receiving the dishes prepared by Sejun, Kellion was delighted.
The dishes with cinnamon had a unique sweet aroma that was hard to resist, while the avocado dishes impressed with their creamy texture and nutty flavor.
‘This can hold its own even compared to the Dragon Meeting held at the Black Tower a month ago.’
Feeling proud, Kellion smiled inwardly as he made the final preparations for the Dragon Meeting. The other dragons of the Four Dragon Council also moved to the White Tower to attend the meeting.
Letting out a sigh of relief after completing a major task, Sejun relaxed a bit.
“Alright! Time to start preparing for the Christmas party.”
There was no time to rest.
There were only two weeks left until Christmas.
There was still so much to do: sending out invitations for the party, decorating the Christmas tree, preparing party food, and arranging gifts for the attendees.
Thankfully, with the help of the Kingdom of Kov, messenger bird Piyot and other messenger birds were already delivering the party invitations.
Naturally, Uren and Poyo followed Piyot on his delivery rounds.
Thanks to everyone’s efforts, only three tasks remained: decorating the tree, preparing food, and arranging the gifts.
However, the real challenge was…
‘We can decorate the tree and prepare food together, but I need to prepare the gifts in secret…’
The gift preparations had to be done without anyone knowing.
To do so, Sejun needed to distract Cuengi, Paespaes, and the Blackie Family, but he couldn’t come up with a good plan.
As Sejun was deep in thought,
[Your soul is greatly fulfilled by the high praise of numerous beings of high rank.]
[Mental Strength increases by 500.]
Due to the praise of the Great Dragons who had eaten Sejun’s food, his Mental Strength began to rise.
[Everyone, it’s coming!]
Of course, the Blackie Family, in tune with Sejun’s condition, adjusted the incoming Mental Strength appropriately for him.
[You have achieved 10,000 Mental Strength.]
[Your weak willpower has begun to exert a small influence on the world.]
Sejun reached Mental Strength 10,000 and became a being that could have a small influence on the world.
My will can influence the world a little?
Sejun shouted while staring intently at a stone.
Of course, the stone didn’t budge an inch.
“Well, of course not.”
Sejun sighed, realizing his insignificance yet again, and moved to the place where he had planted pine trees.
When Sejun arrived, he was greeted by a lush pine forest with hundreds of pine trees.
Originally, he had started with just five pine tree seeds, but using the Harvest Elixir to rapidly grow the trees and harvest seeds, Sejun had managed to expand the forest significantly.
[Your proficiency in Transplanting Lv. 5 has increased slightly.]
[Due to the effect of Transplanting Lv. 5, the roots have not been damaged.]
[Due to the effect of Transplanting Lv. 5, the pine tree will remain in a stable condition for 5 hours.]
Sejun uprooted the pine trees and arranged them in a circle near his house. The remaining trees were planted along both sides of the path leading from the entrance of the 99th floor to the farm.
While Cuengi planted 30 trees, Sejun could only manage one,
[Hehehe. It’s fun because I’m doing it with Dad!]
The two of them were simply enjoying themselves.
Once all the pine trees had been transplanted,
“Alright, everyone, let’s decorate the Christmas tree. Hang whatever you want on the tree.”
Sejun and his companions began decorating the Christmas tree.
“Puhuhut. As Vice Chairman Theo, I will hang the fish bones I’ve eaten so far, meow!”
[Hehehe. Cuengi will hang garaetteoks!]
Theo and Cuengi enthusiastically decorated the tree with their personal preferences.
“Hm. It’ll look better if we add something shiny.”
Sejun added extra decorations to the tree Theo and Cuengi had decorated.
[Hehe. Butler! Great Blackie will help you!]
Blackie, determined to do a good deed, followed closely behind Sejun.
After eating three of the garaetteoks Cuengi had hung as decorations,
[Great Blackie is full… going to sleep now…]
Blackie crawled into one of the socks Sejun had hung on the tree and fell asleep.
A little while later,
“Puhuhut. Chairman Park, it’s all done, meow!”
[Hehehe. Dad, Cuengi is done too!]
Theo and Cuengi, having finished decorating the tree, clung to Sejun’s knees and sides.
“Just wait a moment. I’m almost done too.”
As Sejun was nearing the completion of his tree decorations,
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot. Sejun-nim! Theo-nim! I’m here!”
Iona arrived, carrying the magical lights Sejun had requested.
The lights were made by embedding light magic-infused magic stones into colorful glass jars.
“Iona, can you evenly hang the lights on the trees?”
“Kyoot kyoot kyoot! Yes!”
Using her magic, Iona evenly distributed the lights across the trees.
When Iona activated the magic, colorful lights began to twinkle among the trees.
“Hm… something’s missing.”
Why doesn’t it feel like Christmas?
As Sejun stared intently at the Christmas tree,
He realized there was no music.